Jasper Fforde
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born
January 11, 1961
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male
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London, England, The United Kingdom
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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction
about this author
Jasper Fforde is a novelist living in Wales. He is the son of John Standish Fforde, the 24th Chief Cashier for the Bank of England, whose signature used to appear on sterling banknotes, and is the cousin of the author, Katie Fforde. His early career was spent as a focus puller in the film industry, where he worked on a number of films including Quills, GoldenEye, and Entrapment.
His published books include a series of novels starring Thursday Next: The Eyre Affair (2001), Lost in a Good Book (2002), The Well of Lost Plots (2003), Something Rotten (2004) and First Among Sequels (2007). The Big Over Easy (2005), which shares a similar setting with the Next novels, is a reworking of his first written novel, which initially failed to...more
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1) by Jasper Fforde avg rating 3.90 — 12,183 ratings — published 2001 32 editions |
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Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2) by Jasper Fforde avg rating 4.06 — 6,612 ratings — published 2002 24 editions |
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The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3) by Jasper Fforde avg rating 4.00 — 5,501 ratings — published 2003 24 editions |
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Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4) by Jasper Fforde avg rating 4.05 — 4,810 ratings — published 2004 23 editions |
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The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime, #1) by Jasper Fforde avg rating 3.82 — 4,152 ratings — published 2005 20 editions |
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First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5) by Jasper Fforde avg rating 3.91 — 3,314 ratings — published 2007 20 editions |
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The Fourth Bear (Nursery Crime, #2) by Jasper Fforde avg rating 3.97 — 2,808 ratings — published 2006 13 editions |
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The Next Set (Boxed Set) (Thursday Next, #1-4) by Jasper Fforde avg rating 4.36 — 70 ratings — published 2005 |
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Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde avg rating 4.36 — 11 ratings — published 2009 3 editions |
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"Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world."
— Jasper Fforde (First Among Sequels)
— Jasper Fforde (First Among Sequels)
"If real life were a book, it would never find a publisher."
— Jasper Fforde
— Jasper Fforde
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